206 years later... The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social @ampoetryreview.bsky.social

Caroline Bird So good! A masterclass, really, in efficiency: the essence of a sonnet in 14 words, including volta; the destabilizing yet utterly apt image; the kite string of the poem letting the title soar...

Bob Hass was perhaps the most influential poetry teacher I've ever had. It's not a long list, given my lack of formal poetry schooling, but his kindness, insight, & affirmation fueled me through many long, dry years. To see his beatific smile above my book here is the best kind of serendipity. 💜

My nomination for political cartoon of the year... ...Siegfried Woldhek for the win!

Bob Hass was perhaps the most influential poetry teacher I've ever had. It's not a long list, given my lack of formal poetry schooling, but his kindness, insight, & affirmation fueled me through many long, dry years. To see his beatific smile above my book here is the best kind of serendipity. 💜

Announcing the Copper Canyon Press Spring/Summer 2026 catalog!

I'm thrilled to announce that @emilyskaja.bsky.social has won the Copper Nickel Editors' Prize in Poetry for issue 41! Here's her stunning poem, "Goodbye to All That."

New work in Southern Indiana Review! Very grateful to the editors!

I ran into a shadow I thought I knew

!!!💫🔥💫🔥!!! calirb.com/the-best-poe...

Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social @ampoetryreview.bsky.social

some personal news! Coming in Oct. 2026 cc: @gasherpress.bsky.social

Just reposting for reach! — Cincinnati Review has made two of my poems from their recent issue available on their website until Sunday. Please consider buying the full issue! Afterlife: www.cincinnatireview.com/articles/aft... Lunar Eclipse, Date Unknown: www.cincinnatireview.com/articles/lun...

“when you ask your love for something, make it small” / new poem I’m so pleased to have arriving in mailboxes 🩷

Four new Ak'abal translations just went live on the @fourwaybooks.bsky.social translators' page... 💜 Many thanks to @majalukic.bsky.social & the whole crew! Here's one of them! (link to the whole page in comments)

Here's the Saramago version, lol The little book got a full photo shoot! 🙃

Szymborska & Cloudwatcher! I'm at work, and my wife just texted me this photo, and I love her so much. (ambiguous antecedent intended: includes "my wife/ & Szymborska/ & my brand new little book, which I can't wait to see and hold when I get home") I can't wait to share this book w/ y'all!

I'd been waiting to share this, but now seems the appropriate time: I'm beyond honored to announce that I've received the Pop Tart Bowl's World Poetry Prize™, and will be accepting the award (a gold-foil covered beer coaster taped to shiny red ribbon) at half-time of the big game... 💫

Fanny Howe (!!)

michael bazzett #smallpoemsunday

Wow! Small Wars Manual is one of Lit Hub's 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025!

I'm totally thrilled that @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social has listed THE END OF CHILDHOOD has one of her favorite books of 2025!

POETS: If you're not exactly a spring chicken (I consider myself a mid-to-late-summer bird) I highly recommend taking a gander (sorry, not trying to pun, it just happened) at The Stern Prize. What a lovely framework for a prize: 50 & over. I mean, it takes a half-century to unlearn some things, yes?

POETS: If you're not exactly a spring chicken (I consider myself a mid-to-late-summer bird) I highly recommend taking a gander (sorry, not trying to pun, it just happened) at The Stern Prize. What a lovely framework for a prize: 50 & over. I mean, it takes a half-century to unlearn some things, yes?

Happy to have these two poems published in the 30 year anniversary edition of Snakeskin! www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk

It's real! 💜 🙃 Would be very honored should you spend a minute to click & take a peek...

Michael Bazzett in the December issue of Poetry

Wow. I'm so grateful for John McCarthy's incredible new review of The End of Childhood in RHINO!

Very grateful to have this poem land in the new issue of POETRY! It's a marvelous issue... 💜 Big thanks to editor Adrain Matejka, and the whole crew! 🙏

After decades of loving toil, the person I love most in the world (Leslie!) has her debut novel coming out w/ Scribner next year. A tour-de-force on the level of the sentence –think Elena Ferrante meets Patricia Highsmith– it's absolutely un-put-down-able! Check it out, yes? You won't regret it!

That cover is classic, striking, and beautiful, just like the author. Preordering!

After decades of loving toil, the person I love most in the world (Leslie!) has her debut novel coming out w/ Scribner next year. A tour-de-force on the level of the sentence –think Elena Ferrante meets Patricia Highsmith– it's absolutely un-put-down-able! Check it out, yes? You won't regret it!

Thanks for all the love on the new poems, folks. It's been nearly five years since my last book, and I'm a little rusty at all this "sharing," lol. These poems will all be a part of CLOUDWATCHER, forthcoming from APR & Copper Canyon early next year. If you're curious, you can read more below...

. From 'If Today Were Tomorrow' (2024) —Humberto Ak'abal (tr. Michael Bazzett) #poetry #poem #booksky

So delighted to have this little poem appear in @ampoetryreview.bsky.social, alongside a handful of others! Much gratitude to the editors!

I started sending poems to POETRY magazine 37 years ago, received mnay dozens of rejections in the interim, and this next December issue is hosting two of my poems, and forgive me if I have a second beer this evening.... Invest in the work. Don't quit. Persist.

Hey #NCTE25, if I *had* gone to Denver today, I'd be trying to tell you about my book without sounding like a dingus. So, hey old teacher friends I haven't seen in a while, I have a debut poetry collection!

Beyond grateful to have a half dozen new poems (from the forthcoming CLOUDWATCHER) appear in the brand new issue of @ampoetryreview.bsky.social! Here's one of them...

Over the moon to have new poems (from the forthcoming CLOUDWATCHER) in the December issue of POETRY! Huge gratitude to the editors... @poetryfoundation.bsky.social

From 'Five Poems' —Humberto Ak'abal (tr. Michael Bazzett) #poetry #poem #poems

“Just as I come to know a thing it’s gone again.” A new poem by D. A. Powell. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/senescence-d-a-powell-poem

“Everything that a person pronounces or expresses is a marginal note in a text that has been totally erased. From the meaning of the note, we can more or less work out the meaning of that vanished text, but there is always a doubt, and many possible meanings.” – Fernando Pessoa

Humberto Ak'abal (from "If Today Were Tomorrow," translation mine) #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Ann Jäderlund tr. by @johannesg.bsky.social

Final Curve, Langston Hughes #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :) here’s one by the brilliant @bartonsmock.bsky.social~

Humberto Ak'abal (from "If Today Were Tomorrow," translation mine) #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

My debut collection WHITE DOOR is out!!! 💃✨💃 Thank you Carbonation Press & @gregbem.bsky.social! Link to order and more info in 🧵 DM for signed copies/to review 🙏💙 Watch this space for events/news 😊